Take your FreeBSD ZFS game to the next level!

In our latest blog, Benedict Reuschling dives into automated ZFS snapshots with Sanoid — a powerful tool to schedule, manage, and prune snapshots effortlessly on FreeBSD. Learn how to set up snapshot policies to keep your data safe.

Bonus: Includes a ready-to-go Ansible playbook!

Read now: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/zfs-automatic-snapshots-with-sanoid-on-freebsd/
#FreeBSD #ZFS #OpenZFS #SysAdmin #Sanoid #Snapshots #DataRecovery #Ansible

Server arrived today, immediately found a problematic drive

TOSHIBA 12TB enterprise drive
Only 131 hours of use (basically new)
578 ATA errors (should be near zero)
Performance: 37 MB/s (should be ~200 MB/s)
5x slower than the other identical drives

ZFS isn't complaining, but I can't trust this drive.

The Eagle (American University): American University librarians take up the mantle with government data rescue project. “A team of four librarians at American University is joining a nationwide effort to preserve removed or redacted data in a Government Information Data Rescue guide. Editors Jessica Breen, Gwendolyn Reece, Olivia Ivey and Sarah Gilchrist each bring their own expertise to the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/02/the-eagle-american-university-librarians-take-up-the-mantle-with-government-data-rescue-project/

BusKill Tutorial: Self Destructing Laptop Storage

#buskill #encryption #crypto #storage #forensics #antiforensics #HDD #infosec #cybersecurity #datarecovery #luks #encrypted #harddrive #privacy #security #educational

Watch On #Peertube:

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/q8X2JyxYH26tqYi2VisTHb

From the Data Rescue Project: the Data Rescue Tracker. “The Data Rescue Tracker is a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you can use the tool to help reduce duplication of rescue efforts. The Data Rescue Tracker aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is backing up which dataset from […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/the-data-rescue-tracker/

The result of not having a proper backup strategy in place. I'm currently trying to save my only backup (about 3.5TB) of my video projects over the last 2-3 years.

#backup #linux #datarecovery

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Those of you outside of the US with cloud backups, perhaps as part of your overall backup strategy.

Where exactly is that cloud data physically stored? Inside the US perhaps?

Now imagine that US data isn't available for some odd reason. Perhaps an ongoing trade dispute between your country and the US, as a hypothetical scenario.

Now, further imagine that one of your other backups becomes unavailable.

Can you recover what is needed in short order?

Akira ransomware's encryption cracked! Security researcher Yohanes Nugroho decrypted files without paying, using cloud GPU power. He shared the decryption tool on GitHub. A flaw in Akira’s encryption allowed timestamps to be correlated. More info: https://cyberinsider.com/akira-ransomware-encryption-cracked-using-cloud-gpu-power/ #ransomware #cybersecurity #datarecovery #GPU #newz

I'm not sure if this would run into the realm of piracy or not, hopefully not, but does anybody have DVDs of season 9 of #MASH that I could get ISOs from before I spend money re-ordering it? Every other season so far has read just fine, but season 9's discs are cooked from age and my PC won't even recognize the name of the disc.

I'm about to fire up dvdisaster but I seriously doubt I'm going to get anywhere with the discs looking like this.

We revisited wearable device forensics to show how someone could gain unauthorised access to a Garmin smartwatch and expose your data such as activity logs, GPS data, sleep patterns, and device information: https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/how-garmin-watches-reveal-your-personal-data-and-what-you-can-do/

Joseph Williams walks through the forensic techniques, demonstrating how unauthorised access to Garmin smartwatches can expose sensitive data and compromise a user's privacy.

In this blog, we explore:
How data is saved in .FIT files and how it can be obtained without a password.
Practical uses, including assisting in a double murder investigation
A comparison of Garmin watches security with other brands such as Fitbit, Apple and Samsung.

What's Inside Your Hard Drive ???
we explore the world of hard drive. Whether you're a gamer, content creator, or just someone who loves watching movies, understanding how hard drives work is essential. We'll dive into the basics of hard drive, including how it stores.

This will provide you with everything you need to know about hard drives.
#harddrive #computer #hdd #datarecovery #technology #computerrepair #laptop #data #documentdestruction #shredding #recycling #ecofriendly #seagate

Sharing my #RetroComputing #DataRecovery adventures with a friend, he asks an awkward question.

Kicked off an image registration run for 10K tables. This is part of an ML transcription pipeline. Seems like the new API runs smoothly.

For secure data backup, here’s how to do the 3-2-1 rule right

"The venerable 3-2-1 rule for backing up data remains a tried-and-true method for ensuring the integrity of copied data that is essential to disaster recovery efforts, but it has to be done properly."
W. Curtis Preston

https://www.networkworld.com/article/968388/for-secure-data-backup-here-s-how-to-do-the-3-2-1-rule-right.html

What File History is, and is not

Now I do want to be very clear about this File history is not a replacement for a full image backup Neither is it a replacement for OneDrive cloud storage or offsite backup

Restoring Files With File History
https://askleo.com/29116 article #29116

What it Means to Restore an Image!

It's very important to understand exactly what an image restore means It means that everything currently on your hard disk will be erased and replaced

https://askleo.com/link-in-bio/

https://askleo.com/29825 article #29825